wooden boat

Example Sentences

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But more than a month later, the wooden boat carrying 101 men and boys was getting blown further and further away from its intended destination.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023

I fled to Delhi, then Kuala Lumpur, before taking a wooden boat across the Strait of Malacca.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023

In Gran Canaria, the coast guard towed a wooden boat carrying migrants, including a toddler, into the port of Arguineguin.

From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2023

The second rescue involved 96 people on a similar wooden boat, including nine children, mainly Syrians.

From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2023

He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers